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Re: Obituary for Ambrogio Fogar
From: Courtney Thomas
Date: 2005 Sep 13, 21:56 -0500
From: Courtney Thomas
Date: 2005 Sep 13, 21:56 -0500
Peter, Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I think I own and have read all Moitessier's books :-) as well as several hundred other sailing related books, but had not heard of Fogar. If you hear of an English translation of Fogar please let me know, though they might be too expensive I'd like to know they exist, even if at a prohibitive personal price. I live in Atlanta, unfortunately, though the homeport for my boat is Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. The reason I mention this is that I hope to sail over to your area as soon as I'm competent to do so :-) Cordially, Courtney On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 19:16, Peter Fogg wrote: > Don't know. He seems to have been almost unknown within the English speaking world, so perhaps not. You could go into Amazon.com and try entering his name, and try the same thing with online library catalogues. > > Here (in the state of New South Wales) we have a great system that makes available all the books thoughout all the municipal libraries. A book can be ordered from the local library, and turn up there a week or so later from anywhere in the state. I've got to read all sorts of obscure and long out of print books that have been disturbed from a long slumber on the shelves of some little dusty country library. > > University libraries are another great resource for all kinds of books, if you have access them. Here, again, if you can access one you can access them all, with only a little extra trouble (and expense). > > If you're unsuccessful; and even if not, I can recommend the books of Bernard Moitessier. He was (is?) from France, was well in front of the inaugeral 'Round the World Race as he rounded Cape Horn. He wrote later that he could not bear the thought of returning to Europe, so kept going, doing another long lap of the Southern Ocean to Tahiti. He thought of sailing ('naviguer' in French) as a mystical pursuit. I think at least some of his books have been translated. > > That's orrite (You're welcome) > PF > > > > Courtney Thomaswrote: > > > > Any of his writing available in English ? > > > > Thank you, > > Courtney > >